Wixey DRO on DeWalt DW735

As some good old boy used to say: “Neat but not gaudy.”

How did you find a shop that would make 2 pieces only?

-- Joe

It helps to know the machinist and to approach him when he wasn’t incredibly busy. I wasn’t even looking for something this fancy. The shop specializes in one offs, custom and short production runs, too. they are especially good with stainless steel.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Here are a couple of pictures of the DRO installed. I have to adjust the height of the display unit yet but I didn’t feel like heating up the shop last night.

I used 10-32×1/4 machine screws and matching oval nuts to attach the DRO assembly to the new bracket. It was a cinch to adjust the height of the assembly to match the planer bed. Much better than using foam tape. You can see the oval nut in this picture.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

I’m actually tremendously interested, and this is a superb fabrication for the Dewalt planer. I am interested in getting this planer down the road, which is why I’m trying to avoid this thread, cause it makes “down the road” shorter… and I still need to get more funds… lol. I’ll definitely consider finding a place that would be able to make one of those replacement parts when the time comes – you have shed bright light on the matter.

nice job on the scale mount. how does it perform?

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

Well, the DRO performs very well. I didn’t have time to run the planer last night after installing it though. No reason it shouldn’t work as well as it did on my Ridgid planer. The stainless pieces is a direct replacement for the orignal. The ends were copied from the anaolg scale. I don’t expect to find any problems with it.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

well, looks awesome, great idea having a replacement part made!

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.